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showed tAsir fsar for shIs fsllow, ne
chief Of the tribe. One Of the men told
him what had been going on. Drawing
3 heavy cowhide from under his belt, he
cleared his way through those who were
wallowing on the floor, and made straight
for the woman in the red wrapper. She,
however, was too quick for him. With
q bound she cleared the table before her,
evaded blow aimed ct her, and fled from
the house, the chief, whip in hand,
and several others, pursuing her.
Up the village road she ran, - fast
% her feet would carry her; but
she was soon overtaken. A stroke
with the massive handle Of the whip
threw her to the ground, and instantly
the man began lashing her, who lay turn.
ing and bending from pain, yet almost un-
conscious, while dozen or more OF the
others stood around her and looked on
inactive. Blow after blow the heavy
cowhide struck her, laying bare the up.
per part of her body, now drawing blood
from her back. now lashing even her
naked breast. Against such crowd the
enraged gypsy chief might have killed
the woman had she not made motion
with her head expressing desire to
speak. Still brandishing his whip the
chief asked her question. Every one
of the band drew nearer, intent upon
hearing her answer, and hardly had she
whispered 1t than they raised Q whoop,
intended to express Joy, and sang, danced
and embraced each other, till word from
the chief caused them to stop. Two or
three then lifted the woman on their
shoulders, and, followed by the rest Of
the band, carried her back to the inn,
where the whole party kept on feasting
till late in the night, when platoon Of
gendarmes austrian country police)
hastily summoned from the nearest sta.
tion, drove them out of the village.
This is way the gypsies in Bohemis
have of persuading their young women
to marry. DAN DoRE.
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THE PLuMAaE OF BIRDS.


English Ladies' Decide to Use it No
Longer ~ . Trimming.
At conference ofladies, held in Bond street,
London, q few days ago on the subject Of dress,
it was decided that the plumage of small
birds should no longer be considered as fash
ionable trimming for robes or bonnets.
Commenting on this resolution, the Standard
remarks: In vain have the Audubon Society
and the American Ornithologists' Union
protested, in vain has the Selborne Society in
this country endeavored for years to show
the folly and the cruelty Of the sacrifice Of
millions Of the brightest ornaments of field
and drove to the lowest form of female van
ity. Fashion had sent forth its ukase, women
continued to obey the decree, and SO long as
women continued to stick humming- birds in
their bcnnets and gulls' wings in their hats,
wear muffs of the breasts of Slaughtered
grebes, or, as in the instance Of . Nevada
plutocrat's wife, send sharpshooters to New
Guinea to kill birds of Paradise in order
to sew their gorgeous pelts into mantles, 80
long did the dealers send their collectors out.
A curious observer has put on record that in
one tramway car in Madison avenue. in
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causes them to suffer giving them in their
old age hideousr decrepit appearance.
They are unreliable, lazy, beg in the day
time and steal during the night, though
they mostly profess to be horse-traders or
coppersmiths. They are unruly, cruel
and dirty-will eat anything from dead
cat to an egg-shell; are devoted to drink,
lavish with money when they have any,
and willing to do any rascally act to get
some when their pockets are empty.
In the year 1888 was spending the
summer at Horic, little manufacturing
village near those huge wild mountains
of Bohemia, the Bohmerwald. One after
noon / was sitting under the porch of
the village inn when group OF gygsies
numbered about fifty to sixty men,
they took ct once possession of the
main hall, crowded every decent
person out Of It, laid hands on every
chair, sat upon the tables, stretched
themselves out on the floor, and called for
beer and wine, of which they instantly
dcvoured immense quantities, paying the
landlord lavishly by throwing gold and
silver coins upon the counter. In short
time the liquor made them noisy and ex-
cited. Here, In Q corner, few were
wrestling; there, few others vowed
each other eternal friendships; yonder
two or three others had already drawn
knives. Many were rolling on the floor
hugging and kissing each other, and not
needing the kicks they received from
those whose tables and glasses they
upset. However, the band had come
with . defined aim. In corner of the
hall group OF ten or twelve had gath
was q young woman of Q beautiful
figure and face, conspicuously clad
in . red wrapper, loosely thrown
over her body. The men and
women of this group never once left
OF talking except to raise the bumpers
and the landlord, who understood theiI
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wHArrHr DEACON WAS GOOD FOL
A sphere Of Usefulness for Every Nan
in This world.

A sphere Of Usefulness for Every Nan
in This World.
The Rev., E. A. Dickinson, editor Of the
Rslsgtows Herald, Of Richmond, Va, was tell
ing the Philadelphia Baptist Association the
ether day how necessary it was to enlist the
active services Of every member ofa congre-
CATION, when some one pertinently asked:
"What are you going to do with man that
can't do anything To
'That's . mistake, /" returned the reverend
). csns DO ONE shins b. g can as DO another not
The point q to find out Just what he i at
for, and having found It put him at II. This
recalls a. actual experieElce had In back
woods consrsga gationin Virginia. Il was my
Ant visit smone The people. and ! ys, snx-
nembered that church in the back woods
msans . gathering OF al the people and q
rood many do@. Alter the opening hymn
! oslled on old Deacon Blank 70 lesd ns in
';Fsins no uss ..lin' me- hs aid; j can't
%, sppposs you ssArs the nszs hymn,
SsCant sing, either IS.
How about taking up the co1lectionf
guesa you can manage that
!" Mop; I'm bsd band q gsttins round.
SNcticins that the Ga fellow carried !
scout walking stick q idea vn luggsstsd.
"'wsn, brother. Dc Jon think you'rs shls
- keep out The deGgf
You 81 l g, he eonAdentiy replied.
Than taking scef 3 ths doos e bastls4
4lth the bruto thlooeh2ut the mestin& and
- SsSaiion r wsss fc!icysd % h home by y yslpIss
III With hroken limhe.n
1xSry man has his sphrs a usefulniss.--
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Hus - a sdaes ss1u1l - ~
seofns efow," fsoslvu Z pBsG1D1l 1u
tion, Suf he systsn = ~ unllGe 3 -.
Whose trunk rsss upon ~ 49, d1e9'
Whose branches are oulntsstched thzoG
the Northwest; ard somswhae = ~ eog
Les leaves Of some grand old forrest moo4sA
assths towns and the hamlsts and ~ so11lp
insnts upon it main hne and numeeog
branches. At the risk of bsing ecuusod IL
''punlns," and Of lending TO this e1tiqe
something Of the appearance Of thssomuch,
a-iine epistle, one cannot refrain ffum -
pressing the opinion that Il makes no dtnse'
ence where one may wish 10 80 in Mlchipns
Wisconsin, Minnesota. Dakota, Wyomines
Iowa, Nebraska OF Illinois, II Il sa3s e pu1-
chase ticket vie the Chicago and North.
western Railway. Where the road nag 20
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has q comprehensive realiza-
ton of what this country was
and what it is becoming.
There is little hazard in the
wager that the present reader
does not remember off-hand
that Missouri had been ad-
mitted to the Union as a
State, and st. Louis was carry
ing on a regular trade with
Santa Fe, whilst the Sacs and
Foxes, the Pottowatamies
and Cherokees still held pos
session of the Illinois lake
shore, where Chicago now
stands.
Within the twenty years
the now fertile plains of the
Northwest were described as
the "Great American Des-
ert." In fact, as late as 1875
General Hazen, in charge of
q military post at Fort Bu-
ford, voluminously labored
to prove that Dakota was an
"arid waste" fit only to raise
cacti, prairie dogs, sage brush
and Indians. He lived long
enough to see a population
of over half q million, and q
production of nearly sixty
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are not incidental to the march OF clvlllza-
ton.
The "bone express was frontier parlance
indicative of the recognized line, or rather
lines, of communication from the starting
point upon the Illinois lake front to objec-
tive points as widely divergent as were the
aims of the sturdy men who "blazed' their
way over an expanse 30 vast and trackless
that it was to many the veritable "Valley
of the Shadow of Death"
The old-time theory that ''one-half the
world knows not how the other half lives"
has its parallel in the fact that neither half
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NO country are there
- many gypsies a. in
Bohemia. There they
live In tribes, travelling
in roughly-built carts,
rarely remaining longer
than q few days at one
spot. They camp under
hurriedly erected tents,
where they lie on the
bare ground, men, wo-
men and children, the
sick and the healthy,
huddle d together.
Their dress consists,
for the men, Of q red OF
-A -. vlANIo
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"Thirteen" in Bulgaria.

A certain Herr Max Fiedl has discovered
the key to the continuous troubles of Bull
garia. It appears that the history Of that
little state ever since its liberation from the
Grand Turk has been mysteriously con-
nected with the unlucky number thirteen.
Was not the Berlin treaty the work of July
East Roumelia-properly part Of Bulgaria
article KILT Did not the brave Batten-
berger first enter sophia ON July IS, 1879 ?
Are there not exactly thirteen letters in his
designation ~ ruler of BulRaria-"Alex-
snder der II" Can Bulgaria expect . luck
ing that his official title, "Ferdinsnd der
]" contains precisely the same unfortunate
numbor of letters7
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A GREAT INVENTION,
The True Authorship Of Any Publication

The True Authorship of Any Publication
Infallibly Detected by Machinery.
what queer machine is that?" asked the
sporting editor, as the religious editor en-.
tered the office carrying something under
his arm which looked like a coffee-mill suf-
fering from an attack of the dropsy.
''rll tell you," replied the religious editor
carefully setting his machine ON the desk.
"You have heard of Ig. DonnelIy's cipher
by which he discovered that Shakspeare's
plays were written by Bacon?'
..'Of course"
"Well, this machine beats Donnelly's
cipher to pieces. call it my graphic
tester.'"
"How does it work? p
'By simply passing an extract from any
writing through the machine its authorship
can be ascertained. This hand spells out the
name on the dial one letter at time"
"You don't sayv'
"It's fact. You see it is invaluable in
newspaper Office, for If contributor tries to
impose a plagiarized article or poem upon
the editor the machine will instantly detect
the fraud. Beside that, it can tell instantly
the author of any phrase which may be
placed on the balance"
well, let's see it work.
1--WE will. Here, for instance, is one of
Shakspeare's plays. Put it through the ma
chine and let us see who wrote it."
The book was placed on the balance, and
the indicator stopped successfully at each
letter in Shakspeares name until the word
was spelled.
'The graphotester doesn't believein Don.
nellys cipher, it seems" said the sporting
editor.
"Not much. Now we'll try one Of Presi-
dent Cleveland's famous expressions"
"Gnnocuous desuetude" was the phrase
and the indicator spelled out Rose Eliza
beth Cleveland" at q 2:20 gait.
''So-so that is where that came from, is it !?
Now try ghoulish glee.'"
"Ghoulish glee'' ticked of the name
"Daniel Lamont"
"Well. here's poem just sent in by fe-
male, who signs herself Irene Boyd Let
us see if she wrote it."
The pink-tinted missive was put through
the test, and the indicator spelled out ELLA
Wheeler"
Throw that poem in the waste basket" +"
said the religious editor, 'and try this plum
Der joke!''
| Inc 1OKeiet mace the INDICATOR 70 merrlly
round until the name "Confucius' was
ticked off.
"That's queer. Now try this quip about
the ice man,
The machine pointed mercilessly to "Bel-
shazzar."
"That seems to be triAe antiquated, too
but here is one about the lady's hustle. Let
us see If that is original"
It was not. The indicator spelled just -four
letters-"A-d-a-m."
Several other jokes were tried, but none
appeared to be fresh. The machine pointed
successfully to "Joe Miller" Samson and
"Ananias," but strictly fresh jokes were
scarce.
"Well let the machine rest now, it's tired, "
said the religious editor as he proceeded tt
cut the report ~ prize fight out of q Chicago
| paDar W. H. a.
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reach to-day, It will, in al proba-
bility, appear to morrow.
In this the country resembles

the railway. The marvellous
rapidity of its mutations is stunning.
Strike out, my friend, into Gods land,
where Progress is spelled with Q very big r;
where men have no time to Grow old; where
the census returns are 30 far behind the sb-
solute per capita as to be about the only an
cient history recognized.
Think, II you can, Of 100000 acres-an
area greater by upward Of 300 square mills
than that of Rhode Island and Connections
combined-being taken up for settlement
within single year. This was the record Of
Dakota and Minnesota, and the territories
of Wyoming and Washington present 2
fair second thereto. Into that wonderfnl
chain Of mills at Minneapolis goes the pro
duct of this section, and although the -
pacity of these mills is thirty Thousand bar
rels Of -four day, they are still extendin&
and several of the largest are doubling Their
capacities.
The day Is not far distant when the vo-
taries of fashion, instead of making annual
pilgrimages to the Old World, will turn their
faces yearly toward these new countries.
whose attractions lie not in moldy relics Of
effete civilization, but rather In that constant
growing development in which the familiar
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million bushels of grain from .N
that territory alone. .'M
As Chief of the Weather Bureau
he found this "arid waste SO inn
portant as to justify the location
Of nine signal-service stations 80
within its boundaries. fLss
Gentle reader, do not turn from a
this page of ''ancient history"
with anxious eye to the latest
fluctuations Of the stock and grain
markets. It may be better to con-
slider material than speculative
things. The time must come when the
question of ways and means will rest upon
more substantial basis than the twists and
turns of Wall-street kings.
If ever American industry can checkmate
the English policy of opening the arabic
fields of India against our wheat producing
sections, we must look to the Northwest for
the accomplishment of such result. No
where on the continent can the slave labor
of India be counterbalanced by fertility and
production, and low cost of cultivation, un-
less it be in the bread fields of Minnesota
and Dakota.
Thanks to the Interstate Commerce Law, q
newspaper man may speak of railways with
out the implication of payment for pass
favors. 1t is fashionable to deride railway
interests, and assert that corporations have
no souls; that they are cormOrants, "fatten-
ing" upon the body polite What nonsense ;
Men are men the world over, and the rail-
way official who seeks a reasonable return
for the service which his company renders
the public can with no more justice be ac-
cused Of lack of conscience than can the
horny-handed agriculturist be likewise up
braided for his desire to secure an honest re-
ward for his physical investment.
What would be the condition Of the North
west to-day were 1t not for the enormous
outlay Of money involved in the extension
and perfection Of railway systemsf
Look st the map ofthe country from Lake
Michigan to the British Possessions. Take
the Chicago and Northwestern Railway map,
for instance. Its good one even ifit was
| prspased by railroad. II aas the merit Of
being geographically correct-a merit not
| esnesaly found N ainilaR publicatiopA
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QUEER VEGETABLES.
THE srRANoE SIGHTS SEEN m THE
PLANT KINGDOM.

Some Of ths various kinds Of Funsi-Prsy-
ing Upon the Ds6d-Ths Mushroom and
~ Place In Natural History-Toadstool
and Their Psealiaritiss -Zhs stinh-horn.
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THAT ARID WASTE.


which Hsvs AmasSA gsvanSs, Dsmolishsd
Theories snd Demonstrated Results the
LAks sf which History Tells Not e.
Wildsst Dreams More Than Surpassed.
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means AIS. - SA~' & ~
comfort and u
possibly inadequate attention. The Euf
adheres to its original policy Of direct eQ
tact with its patrons, believing that In ce1>e@
for each and every one alike the gsdo1r
good to the greatest number muG4
the end, be secured. .t3
While rates are equal, and in noth1nG
the expense greater than by oshef yoG
there is an attention which cannot ~
preached, service which the mot ~
Gus cannot criticise, and an absolutp e
fort, which makes the journey pleanQIo
stead Of burden. This principle apP1
with equal force to individualA la6iG
children travelling alone a. to orsaniugf
ties, has resulted in establishing MOI
isfactory relations between The 1nl11
and the public. This may b cn
rather strong language, but tzufk
greatest compliment which can
slowed; and II 1t be true why not G
This statement b the result a. ~
observation, and, in the langpAGe n
witnessstand, y ''ths truth and
but the truth" t's
You may aak why no othsP rol>t
toned. Again aay l. whal = ~
speak vhsrsof know.
p vinnlv vug,Slv. - - -
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red wrapper to marry one
have been her reason, abe refused steadily,
cited s.pssohss witch I1 he others sS ~ were ere
uttsring al Il the Same time not only
with her tongue, but with the widest
gestures, comforting her body, rolling
hsr syss-in short, displaying n all-bIt
pleasant mood. She had been carrying
On this game for some time, when, aud
denly, tie door Of the han was opened,
md theyv Appeared q The entFsnces . stall
isoss Sssalsiys w
- :;:':' =: \: :,: Ann '': =
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This is the season of the year when the az.
asperated householder caps the climax Of
precedent in lurid expletive and demolishes
the decalogue in putting up the stove-pipe In
the presence q several cCmmiserating
pipe, q he proceeds and bangs joint and el-
bow into incongruous dents and shapes, it Is
.'stOved pipe" and a. his lab0rs are finally
crowned with sooty success he may say the
stoves piped."
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written upon the whitened
skulls of the buffalo or
glistening bones of oxen
long gone to the happy
land where "prairie schoon-
ers." packs and "trains''
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lievsd black looped up with blackbird |;
and q winged creature 20 dusky that 1t could
have been intended for nothing but crow
reposed among the coils and brsids Of her
the last OF this cruel folly. To slaughter by
the million In the intsrssts Of fashion the
mort lovely OF birds u cruslty 70 them and
injury 70 ". IA n. y s t.sys *
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comeliness and eternal fitness will DO found
to prevail, while in the dining-car there VIII
be found relief from that longtime terror
to railway farers-the cry OF Twenty
minutes for dinner"
To the thousands who have made the
transcontinental trip by this route, one may
appeal with confidence to corroborate the
correctness of this statement. Itisone which
requires no oratorical establishment. In
fact, all exaggerated representations are
foreign to the policy of the company referred
to, its management preferring to rely upon
absolute experience and the simple re count
ing of facts, whereof the writer speaks ffom
observation, without the fear Of contradic-
ton.
When the plan of 'corraling'' large par
ties for the California trip was first inaugurs
ated, many lines embraced it eagerly, under
the delusion that the larger the party the
greater the revenue, without stopping 70
consider the difficulties and inconvenionceD
to which the componeut
y. members Of such parties
Y, M, must be subjso1-
- ed. The North
A AVSGsssEz - western has netue
~ 17;Afb fully surrendsFoo
7T-Ti'. to this practieeI
8S&&N It il the opinion
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-. scenes Of one
. year are Lost
in the whirl
'T of the next.
Then it viii
be appreciated
II that railway
life has its
luxuries q
well as steamer life, and
that the elegance and 60
ofthe first cabin find fitting
counterparts in the cars q
the Northwestsfn.
Whether it be sleeper, par
lor or coach, that air Of Alb
solute cleanliness, artistic
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AMONG THE GYPSlES.
rcpsr,sassa. is,.l

IN no country are there
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-10-06
Dit. Hone.

Our school, under the management OF
Prof. w. A. Cundy, of Platteville, as
principal and Misses Cora Humphrey
and Mary Zimmerman as intermediate
and primary teachers is doing fine work.
Miss Dora Scobie, of Cambridge, is
attending school in this place.
Miss Kate O'Connor, of Little Grant,
and Miss Bessie Arnold, of Fennimore,
are attending Mt. Hope High School,
Another runaway excited our little
village last Sunday night, but Allie
Storrs ever smiling face seen on Mon
day IN the P. o. gave proof that he was
none the worse for wear.
A little boy made his appearance at
Charley Handy's. He likes the place
and intends to stay.
Mr.. and Mrs VIM. White took in the
Boscobel Fair last week.
Miss Carrie Mckenzie is spending this
week in Boscobel.
Mr.. Geo. Brown, Jr., of Woodman,
was renewing his acquaintance in Nit.
Hope Sunday.
Mr.. Robert Narrower was a caller in
Mt. Hope this week
A. L. Snider's Creamery is running
full blast and is paying Ice for cream.
M. j. Whiteside, j. w. Alexander,
j. P. Williams. A. l.. Stratton and Hon.
E. /. Kidd attended the G. A. r. En-
campment at st. Louis last week.
Our genial merchant NJ A. Bishop
is still in the west looking for a bust
ness location. Rumor says that Mt.
Hope is too dull for him.
Mt. Hopes blacksmiths, Messrs.
Sheedy and Scobie are doing good work
judging from. the number of horses
standing there daily.
Mr.. Alex. Cairns has turned his at
tention to dairying. He has about
twenty-five COWS and all of the modern
implements for making giIt-edged but
for.
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An Anecdote of Verdi.

A German newspaper relates cap
ital story of the composer Verdi. Some
years ago Verdi was visited by friend
in small bathing place, where he was
found quartered in little room which,
he said, served at once as dining,
dwelling and bed room. As the visitor
expressed surprise Verdi broke in;
"Oh, have two other large rooms,
but l keep the articles hired by me in
them" With this the composer rose
from his seat, opened a door, and
showed his astonished visitor ninety
five barrel-organs, remarking; "When
| came here all these organs played
.Rigoletto, 'Trovatore, and similar
stuff. / have hired them from the
owners. pay about 1,500 lire, and
aow | can enjoy my summer rest with
out being disturbed"